Those of us lucky enough to have been students will look back with pleasure at the great student community we had in our student houses, where we spent some of the best years of our lives.

Students do not destroy a community, as your front page article suggests. They are a stimulating addition to the small, samey areas of outer Brighton where they congregate.

Would there be a life there after 10pm if it wasn't for the student community? In Preston Circus, where my properties are, the pubs now have Wi Fi and comedy nights and open-mic. Shops also find it worthwhile to open late.

I am presently occupied in professional training for landlords all over England - and I always recommend that if we treat occupants with respect, we will receive the same in return. Brighton should be saying thank you and welcoming this new diversity.

Yes, students do see things from a different perspective and favour a different arrangement of time and objects from those we're used to, but as a student landlord since 1988, I would never let my property to any other occupants.

Their happiness and joy in life is a pleasure - if this is studentification then long live the student princes and princesses!

-Shula Rich, Hove